The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was created to get low-income families back on their feet. But does it actually work?

The former NFL player is embroiled in what may be Mississippi’s biggest corruption scandal ever: the misuse of welfare funds for ego projects that did nothing to help the state’s poor people.

The Utah senator’s plan for a basic income for families is an improvement on what’s out there. It’s also an incredibly narrow vision of what the government can do for the most vulnerable.

The pandemic has offered a brief respite from policies that force people to work to “deserve” basic support like food stamps. We can’t go back.

Bill Clinton already ended welfare as we knew it. So what, exactly, are Republicans after now?

New poverty data from the Census Bureau reveals the extent of the damage that Trump and Paul Ryan could do to America’s neediest communities.

A provision in the Senate's bill gives states near-carte blanche to spend health care money on whatever they want.